John Hejduk, House for Two Brothers, Berlin, Germany, 1988
Each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947
Patkau Architects, Competition Entry for the Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Building at the University of Texas, Houston, TX, 1996
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In 2015 Uber, the world’s largest taxi company owns no vehicles, Facebook the world’s most popular media owner creates no content, Alibaba, the most valuable retailer has no inventory, and Airbnb the world’s largest accommodation provider owns no real estate.
Tom F. Goodwin, “The Age of Disintermediation,” 2015 (via ryanpanos)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “The Dwelling of Our Time” for the German Building Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 1931
Doris Salcedo, The Crack / Shibboleth at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, England, 2007
“It represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred. It is the experience of a Third World person coming into the heart of Europe. For example, the space which illegal immigrants occupy is a negative space. And so this piece is a negative space.”